Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] from [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dismissed protests from Friends of the Earth as ‘ scaremongering ’ . |
| 2 | This drew protests from residents of the Awlad Amira oases , which were indeed more populous but which were within easier reach of the hospital in Zawiya . |
| 3 | The competition involved pupils from schools throughout the area competing in darts , dominoes , draughts , chess and table tennis . |
| 4 | It seems likely that they received support from parties within the Uí Néill territory in Ireland , even from among the Dalriadic Scots and perhaps the Picts , anxious to have the bellicose Ecgfrith replaced by a more pacific figure . |
| 5 | The magazine — redesigned last year — received a certificate of merit in the competition which attracted entries from companies throughout the north of England . |
| 6 | Three fire appliances brought the blaze under control as police diverted traffic from roads near the scene . |
| 7 | The 24 hour child protection line received referrals from members of the public in Rochdale , Bury , and Oldham . |
| 8 | Tanjug said police fired rockets from helicopters into the crowd and police sprayed automatic weapons fire into the demonstrators ‘ shooting at everything that moved ’ . |
| 9 | Some 80 delegates attended the Environmental and Business 1990s conference and heard presentations from speakers across the globe . |
| 10 | The sluggish growth of exports last year was not mainly because they were uncompetitive , but because manufacturers , already operating at full capacity , switched output from exports to the home market to take advantage of surging demand and healthy margins . |
| 11 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 12 | PETER McMULLAN talked to coach IAN BIRTWELL , the former Englishman who took Canada from also-rans to the success story of the World Cup . |
| 13 | Gardai investigating the crash took statements from spectators at the gala . |
| 14 | The French men were identically garbed in black trousers and " le smoking " — a white dinner jacket cut away at the waist — while the women wore dresses from shops in the Rue Catinat fashionable enough to allow them to forget that the Rue de la Paix was a twelve-thousand-mile sea journey away . |
| 15 | The study took samples from workers at the Dounreay , Hunterston , Chapelcross and Torness nuclear plants , and Ministry of Defence staff from Rosyth , Faslane , Coleport and Vulcan bases . |